🎥 AI recreates 2006 World Cup ad: which stars join Maradona? ✨ | OneFootball

In 2006, Adidas created one of the best commercials in history, on the eve of the World Cup in Germany. What made it magical was the participation of great football stars.

In that ad, in fact, players such as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Oliver Kahn, Franz Beckenbauer, Raúl González, Michel Platini, Frank Lampard, Arjen Robben, Juan Román Riquelme… appeared, and it became one of the most memorable ever.

A unique beauty, with little José and his friends who, thanks to their imagination, manage to take the field alongside their idols—not in a 90,000-seat stadium, but on the neighborhood pitch.

Well, just a few months before the World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, there still hasn’t been a commercial on par with the one from 2006. Someone, however, has tried to emulate what was done twenty years ago, with the help of artificial intelligence.

🤩 The new version with Lautaro

As a preview of the FIFA World Cup 2026, a “remake” has been created that imagines what that commercial would look like today.

The video features many stars: Ousmane Dembélé, Lautaro Martínez, Christian Pulisic, Joshua Kimmich, Takefusa Kubo, Vinícius Júnior, Kylian Mbappé, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pelé, Diego Maradona, Lamine Yamal…

A true marvel, which many would love to see become reality but—for now—is only the product of AI. Who knows, maybe between now and June we’ll see something like this!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.